First question is on detecting terror attacks, like the one in San Bernardino. Obama is traveling there later today on his way to Hawaii. He says it’s hard to detect lone wolf plots or anticipate mass shootings. He says he wants to work with high-tech companies to do a better job on detecting, but adds no government will have ability to read every person’s texts or emails.

Question two, on closing Guantanamo Bay facility. He expects resistance from Congress to closing it, but says it doesn’t make sense to spend millions of dollars to have the place for “50, 60, 70 people.” But he’s sidestepping whether he has authority to close it himself.

Obama is on a long riff about the Middle East, Syrian President Assad and the U.S. role there.

“The notion that we would just stand by and say nothing is contrary to who we are,” he says about Syria, where the U.S. has been bombing ISIS targets. He says Assad has to leave in order for the country to stop the bloodletting.

Obama is now touting the Trans Pacific Partnership, the big trade deal that he’s long pushed for. He calls it a huge win for agriculture: the Japanese, for example, would be able to eat American beef. But he’s acknowledging it’s not a done deal in Congress.